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NPR thinks they can cover their ass by using the word "invented" in the question of the origin of the novel coronavirus. Let's follow the threads of evidence and see what the truth is: https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1345502899653275650
2/It was the NEJM who first implied the origin of the virus came from a wet market in Wuhan. As you will discover later that claim is kind of batshit crazy: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2001017
3/To the best of anyone's knowledge, no one knows where this coronavirus originated from. There are no credible studies demonstrating the virus came from bats or from the wilderness.
There are studies that endeavor to show the virus was not "engineered" but that's irrelevant.
There are studies that endeavor to show the virus was not "engineered" but that's irrelevant.
4/Engineered or not, there are 2 biohazard labs in Wuhan. One of them is a level 4 biohazard lab. That BSL-4 (Wuhan Institute of Virology) lab is only 8.6 miles away from the wet market blamed as the culprit.
The Wuhan Centre for Disease Prevention & Control is 2.6 miles away.
The Wuhan Centre for Disease Prevention & Control is 2.6 miles away.
5/These 2 labs proximity to the wet market lend plausibility to the notion that an accident could have happened in one of these 2 labs that led to patient zero.
Both of these labs have conducted experiments on SARS Co-V-1 on live animals. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258702/
Both of these labs have conducted experiments on SARS Co-V-1 on live animals. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258702/
6/From that paper:
"First, the SL-CoV S was unable to use any of the three ACE2 molecules as its receptor."
"...we investigated the receptor usage of the SL-CoV S by combining a human immunodeficiency virus-based pseudovirus system with cell lines expressing the ACE2...
"First, the SL-CoV S was unable to use any of the three ACE2 molecules as its receptor."
"...we investigated the receptor usage of the SL-CoV S by combining a human immunodeficiency virus-based pseudovirus system with cell lines expressing the ACE2...
7/...
"...molecules of human, civet, or horseshoe bat"
"Third, the chimeric S covering the previously defined receptor-binding domain gained its ability to enter cells via human ACE2"
What does that mean? It means they found a virus that couldn't infect humans, so...
"...molecules of human, civet, or horseshoe bat"
"Third, the chimeric S covering the previously defined receptor-binding domain gained its ability to enter cells via human ACE2"
What does that mean? It means they found a virus that couldn't infect humans, so...
8/...
...they combined that virus with elements of HIV (something that does infect humans) just to see what happens. Guess what happened? Their chimera could infect humans!
Reading the paper you'll discover the WIV was involved in this Frankensteinian experiment.
...they combined that virus with elements of HIV (something that does infect humans) just to see what happens. Guess what happened? Their chimera could infect humans!
Reading the paper you'll discover the WIV was involved in this Frankensteinian experiment.
9/Here's another paper explaining the methods of another chimera they created (invented?) that could infect human "airway" cells and in efforts to fight this novel virus found the could not: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26552008/
10/Here's a Nature Magazine article that kind of freaks out about the above paper:
"But other virologists question whether the information gleaned from the experiment justifies the potential risk. Although the extent of any risk is difficult to assess, Simon Wain-Hobson...
"But other virologists question whether the information gleaned from the experiment justifies the potential risk. Although the extent of any risk is difficult to assess, Simon Wain-Hobson...
11/...
"...a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says."
And;
In their paper, the study authors...
"...a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says."
And;
In their paper, the study authors...
12/...
"also concede that funders may think twice about allowing such experiments in the future. "Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue," they write, adding that discussion is needed as to...
"also concede that funders may think twice about allowing such experiments in the future. "Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue," they write, adding that discussion is needed as to...
13/...
"..."whether these types of chimeric virus studies warrant further investigation versus the inherent risks involved". https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787
"..."whether these types of chimeric virus studies warrant further investigation versus the inherent risks involved". https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787
14/Here is a paper informing its readers on the discovery of a cave more than 1000 miles away from Wuhan that very likely contained the SARS Co-V-1 virus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708621/
15/Another study linking that same cave to the probable bat infected with the SARS Co-V-1 virus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095418/
16/This is just a fraction of the evidence linking Covid-19 to the biohazard labs in Wuhan. If needed I'll post more, but it's not my job, nor am I paid to do this. You would think reporters at NPR are paid to do this and that it is their job. Apparently not.
